Sentences with phrase «mathematical language for»

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In the language of mathematical logic, at least as it was current in Whitehead's day, a proposition is produced from a propositional function by substituting a name as value for the variable in the argument position of the function, or by quantifying over a range of such values.

«When the physical model of wave - motion in a material medium had to be abandoned in physics», writes Mary Hesse, «it left its traces in the kind of mathematics which was used, for this was still a mathematical language derived from the wave equations of fluid motion, and so, for the mathematician, it carried some of the imaginative associations of the original physical picture.»

The meaning for mankind of the Incarnation of God in all that it meant two thousand years ago; in the deeper and more urgent meaning it bears for men today, can not be expressed fittingly in the clipped language of mathematical science.

Kraus says that eternal objects «form the patterns structuring concrete fact» and «the forms structuring the togetherness of data into a datum of experience — eternal objects in Whitehead's language — are given for all times in ordered, intelligible, interrelated sets like mathematical systems» (ME 30).

problem which already pushes toward abolishing the unquestioned privilege of «concepts of the material world» formulated in mathematical language, in order to pave the way for a more adequate and at the same time more comprehensive conception of the world.

In spite of the acknowledged difficulties, he continues to try for a few years to preserve the claims to effectiveness and the privilege of the theory of the world formulated only in mathematical language.

First, Whitehead emphasizes that the signs for numerals, letters, and mathematical operations are not the outward side of a language essentially different from, and more mysterious than everyday language, but that they are introduced to relieve the brain (see IM 39) and «to make things easy» (IM 40).

The true testing ground for the implicate - order strategy, it seems to me, may indeed be biology rather than physics, where abstract methods are so powerful as to perhaps make it dispensable: just as the old style building - block materialist was refuted not by philosophical polemic, but by the one authority in which he trusted, i.e., by physics itself, so the nothing - but reductionist in contemporary biology will modify his views should it be possible some day to provide him with a mathematical language that fills the currently existing gap between our formal knowledge of gene structure and combinations, and our intuitive apprehension of growth and shape.

There can never be an absolutely final translation of the New Testament, for (1) we do not know with mathematical precision what its authors meant or how their readers understood them, and (2) our own language changes from age to age and words acquire and lose meanings.

Several years ago, Kandler and her colleagues decided to make a mathematical model of the speakers of an endangered language, to provide a kind of test environment for programs that encourage the learning of local languages.

He showed that languages have an elegant mathematical structure, which set a research agenda for linguistics, psychology, and computer science for decades to come, namely, «What are the computations that allow a language to be learned and used?»

MinecraftEdu, a version of the game that teachers created for educational purposes, teaches students mathematical concepts including perimeter, area and probabilities as well as foreign languages.

For some, such as Noam Chomsky, mathematical activity emerged in humans as a result of their capacity for languaFor some, such as Noam Chomsky, mathematical activity emerged in humans as a result of their capacity for languafor language.

And, he continues, «given their extensive training in sophisticated mathematical techniques, the preponderance of mathematics in particle physicists» accounts of reality is no more hard to explain than the fondness of ethnic groups for their native language».

NIMBioS Seminar: Using the mathematical programming language R for statistical modeling with counts of bats

He spent nearly a decade in the Netherlands, where he worked on describing the large scale structure of the universe using the mathematical language of fractals, as well as on software projects for radio astronomy.

Teachers of Key Stage 2 and 3 looking for ready made, tried and tested cross-curricular lesson plans, here's a question for you: what links modern children's myths and fables, geographic landmarks, mathematical code challenges, Sufi poetry, musical mastery and language learning?

10 higher level thinking questions for deepening understanding and developing mathematical language Having studied in a course based on AFL strategies, I have a new found love (so to speak) for asking higher level questions during lessons to evoke discussion between students.

10 higher level thinking questions for deepening understanding and developing mathematical language

That's the part of the teacher, to support this, to clarify, for example, vocabulary, the use of terms, or to introduce correct mathematical language.

This bundle contains all 4 of my learning games: Grand Theft Pokemon (for helping children understand language devices) Guardians of the Grammarxy (for helping children build confidence with grammar) Angry Words (for helping students understand different word types) Minion Maths (a game designed to reinforce the basic mathematical processes) Buy as a bundle and save a quarter off the total cost!

Teachers with more mathematical knowledge for teaching were more likely to supply mathematical explanations, to use better concrete models of mathematical processes, and to «translate» more accurately between students» everyday language and mathematical language.

Other provisions that lend a more credible basis to the view that inclusive education has been promoted in the Act, are provisions such as Section 28 which provides for designing and developing new assistive devices, teaching aids, special teaching materials and other such items necessary to provide «equal opportunities in education'to a child with disability; and clauses (f), (g), (h) of Section 29, which provides for suitable modification in the examination system through elimination of purely mathematical questions for the benefit of blind students and those with low vision (f); restructuring of curriculum for the benefit of children with disabilities (g); restructuring the curriculum for benefit of students with hearing impairment to facilitate them to take only one language as part of their curriculum (h).

The rest of the time is for the audience to browse the different outcomes of the inquiry: properly cited research, an English text of each student's choice — an explanatory or informational text, a short story, or a collection of poems, for example — an infographic of mathematical data and statistics, written work in the students» native languages, a related art piece, and more.

Included are opportunities for children to create pictorial representations of fractions, interpret pictorial representations of fractions, practice their fluency skills, use mathematical language in reasoning responses and problem solve.

Reading tasks for logical - mathematical language learners by Rolf Palmberg More articles by Rolf

For instance, mathematics teacher Joseph Assof's purpose for one day included goals for content (to use our understanding of linear functions as a foundation for mathematical modeling with average rate of change), language (to use familiar terms to build greater understanding of rates of change), and social learning (to enrich our lesson by participating in whole - class discussionFor instance, mathematics teacher Joseph Assof's purpose for one day included goals for content (to use our understanding of linear functions as a foundation for mathematical modeling with average rate of change), language (to use familiar terms to build greater understanding of rates of change), and social learning (to enrich our lesson by participating in whole - class discussionfor one day included goals for content (to use our understanding of linear functions as a foundation for mathematical modeling with average rate of change), language (to use familiar terms to build greater understanding of rates of change), and social learning (to enrich our lesson by participating in whole - class discussionfor content (to use our understanding of linear functions as a foundation for mathematical modeling with average rate of change), language (to use familiar terms to build greater understanding of rates of change), and social learning (to enrich our lesson by participating in whole - class discussionfor mathematical modeling with average rate of change), language (to use familiar terms to build greater understanding of rates of change), and social learning (to enrich our lesson by participating in whole - class discussions).

For example, African American children born in poverty who participated in early childhood education programs had higher graduation rates, higher adult earnings, and fewer arrests than their peers.102 A similar study found that students who participated in early intervention programs maintained higher high school GPAs, were two times more likely to have attended a four - year college, and were more likely to hold a job than their peers.103 Furthermore, research finds that participation in state - funded preschool programs improves children's language, literacy, and mathematical skills.104

The redesigned exam places the emphasis on language, mathematical, and analytical skills that are essential for college success, and the new exam is better aligned with high school curricula.

Gradebook and markbook for Windows available in International language versions with mathematical, printing and graphing functions.

Manipulatives not only allow students to construct their own cognitive models for abstract mathematical ideas and processes, they also provide a common language with which to communicate these models to the teacher and other students.

What sounds like the epitome of a boring game mechanic, in practice makes for a mind - melting activity akin to learning a foreign language or working through mathematical problem sets.

For the better part of her life, Dorothea Rockburne has conducted investigations into subjects most often approached through the mathematical sciences and language, yet her avenues of approach have been through fluid gesture, the properties of material and precise forms.

It was Lovelace, though, who published the first algorithm intended for this «Analytical Engine,» helping to develop seminal ideas about the mathematical language necessary for coding machines that would become the prototype for twentieth - century computers.

Sea Legs is the first solo museum exhibition for Xylor Jane, a Massachusetts - based artist whose paintings merge the subjective and handmade with a standardized mathematical language.

Though Brooklyn - based artist Christopher Knowles is renowned for his mathematical, oftentimes compulsive, use of language, his large retrospective show Christopher Knowles: In a Word is a revelation of how equally intense and curious he is throughout the breadth of his artmaking.

1) Using distributions and sigmas is perfectly valid for a paper in PNAS aimed at an audience of scientists, who presumably are familiar with mathematical language.

Humans use language as an imperfect signpost for more complex thought, but deep - learning AI, with its greater (if narrow) cognitive power, doesn't have human language biases (apart from those implicit in that corpus of used words) or limitations in finding the clear mathematical similarities.

Most interesting, perhaps, for those of us not versed in linguistics or mathematical modelling, is the QuickTime movie of how our language family spread across Europe and parts of Asia.